The cost of the Iran war is weighing on Americans as joint operations from the U.S. and Israel stretch into a sixth week. Poll results released by Pew Research Center on Tuesday found that heightened gas prices resulting from the conflict in Iran are a concern for 7 in 10 Americans. The new survey found...
Vice President Vance opposed President Trump authorizing full-scale strikes against Iran, according to a Tuesday report in The New York Times. New reporting by Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman for their forthcoming book “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump” details how Vance expressed skepticism about the U.S. joining Israel in launching a...
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday pressed President Trump to extend his 8 p.m. EDT deadline for Iran to make a deal, saying, “diplomatic efforts for peaceful settlement of the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily.” He asked Trump for a two-week extension "to allow diplomacy to run its course." "Pakistan,...
Iran’s envoy to the United Nations said Tuesday that Tehran is willing to engage in “genuine” negotiations to end the conflict in the Middle East but will not accept a temporary ceasefire, as the country defies intense pressure from President Trump to make a deal on the Strait of Hormuz or face escalation. Amir-Saeid Iravani...
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has voted to no longer lead security drills at power plants, instead allowing companies to lead their own drills in the coming years. Last week, the commission decided to transition to company-led drills rather than agency-led ones to assess the nuclear energy fleet’s preparation for attacks. The drills in question, known as force-on-force...
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday said the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been providing legal counsel to the Trump administration on possible strikes on Iran. “The Department of Justice as it always does, supports the Department of War, the White House, Department of State to the extent that's involved, and our intelligence communities...
A former assistant is suing Howard Stern and his wife, Beth Stern, alleging the couple created a “hostile work environment.”
Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Tuesday rebuked President Trump’s threat to Iran that if it refuses his demands, “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” “That is the definition of genocide,“ Jones, typically a Trump supporter, said in a video posted on social platform X. “Not a war. Not...
Former Vice President Kamala Harris spoke out against President Trump’s Tuesday threat to escalate military operations against Tehran. “The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a ‘whole civilization’ — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy...
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior urged those in the country to shelter in place for six hours early Wednesday, which overlaps with President Trump’s 8 p.m. EDT Tuesday deadline for the Iranian government to lift restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz. In a Tuesday post on social platform X, the ministry instructed Kuwaiti citizens and...
Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), the ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, went after President Trump for a recent Truth Social post threatening that Iranian “civilization will die tonight,” referring to an 8 p.m. EDT deadline on Tuesday the president gave. “President Trump’s social media post goes beyond what any president should say or...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s amended charter for a vaccine advisory committee was published Monday and is set to go into effect soon, but there are currently no members after a federal judge effectively nullified those handpicked by the secretary. On April 6, Kennedy's amended charter for the Advisory Committee on...
NASA officials will provide an update on the Artemis II mission Tuesday afternoon, as the crew is expected to return to Earth on Friday. The 10-day mission, launched last Wednesday, marked the first crewed test flight to travel toward the moon in more than five decades. On Monday, the crew aboard the Orion spacecraft traveled...
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Political scientist Larry Sabato said Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s (D) drop-off in voter approval is “stunning” months into her first term at the helm of the Old Dominion State. Her approval rating sat at 47 percent, with 46 percent of voters disapproving and 7 percent expressing no opinion, in a poll from The Washington Post...
A retired U.S. general slammed President Trump on Tuesday for being an "absolutely terrible commander in chief" after Trump threatened Iran's "whole civilization" ahead of his deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and negotiate a peace agreement. CNN's Kate Bolduan asked Brig. Gen. Steve Anderson about his reaction to Trump's heightened rhetoric. The president...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) slammed President Trump’s threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Tehran does not meet his administration’s demands by Tuesday at 8 p.m. EDT. “This is a threat of genocide and merits removal from office,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote Tuesday in a post on the social platform X. “The President’s mental faculties...
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said President Trump is the “only one that knows” why Pam Bondi was fired, as he gave a vocal defense Tuesday of the president’s vision of the Justice Department. “Nobody has any idea why the attorney general is no longer the attorney general and I'm the acting attorney general, except...
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President Trump hit back at conservative pundit Tucker Carlson, who on Monday blasted the president over a social media post in which he used an expletive and threatened Iran ahead of a ceasefire deadline Tuesday evening. “Tucker’s a low IQ person that has absolutely no idea what’s going on,” the president said during an interview...
U.S. journalist Shelly Kittleson was released Tuesday afternoon a week after she was abducted in Baghdad at the end of March, an Iraqi official told The Associated Press. Iraqi militia group Kataib Hezbollah said in a statement earlier Tuesday that it would free Kittleson but mandated that she “leave the country immediately” after her release,...
A Bahrain-led resolution aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz failed at the United Nations on Tuesday, unable to withstand opposition from Russia and China despite attempts to weaken its provisions to win their support. Nearly a dozen countries — Bahrain, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, France, Greece, Latvia, Liberia, Panama, Somalia, United Kingdom and...
A spokesperson for Iran's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday mocked President Trump's latest threat toward Iran, saying his "civilized" country will win over "brute force." Trump has set a deadline for Iran to submit a peace proposal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz at 8 p.m. EDT on Tuesday. On Tuesday morning, he reiterated his existential...
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Monday characterized President Trump as someone who is “undisciplined, immature and narcissistic” but not “stupid.” “He knows he is in trouble. When that happens, he flails and that is what he is doing now. He is flailing. That is the way to explain what you see now....
The United Nations issued a Tuesday reminder about the Geneva Conventions and the standards of international humanitarian law amid the war in Iran. “Even wars have rules,” the UN wrote in a Tuesday post on the social platform X. “The Geneva Conventions protect civilians in conflict and help ensure assistance reaches those in need, without...
